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Real-time notes from watching MLP episodes (starting with G1)

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Too Sick to Notice

Too Sick to Notice (G1.5 TV episode, July 3rd 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Bon Bon is jealous of her youngest sibling, and pretends to be sick to get attention.   The ice cream shop's interior is actually a rather 50's soda shop, actually, now that I think about it. The outside, having it look like a ice cream cone, is reminiscent of the Twistee Treat ice cream shops built in the 80's which did exactly that.   Bon Bon. In a rather silly hat. Early 20th century flapper interpretation of a 1
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Slumber Party

My Little Pony Tales   In 1992, several years after the prior series ended in 1987, a new My Little Pony series started up. Still produced by the same animation studio, but this time Hasbro went directly to the studio rather than going through Marvel like they had before.   Originally, Hasbro's deal with Marvel covered all of Hasbro's properties, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and My Little Pony, amongst others. But while Marvel put out comics and cartoons for the other franchises, they only produc
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My Little Pony Tales (Index)

My Little Pony Tales (Generation 1.5)   Slumber Party (July 3rd 1992, 11 minutes) To Sick to Notice (July 3rd 1992, 11 minutes) The Battle of the Bands (July 10th 1992, 11 minutes) And the Winner Is (July 10th 1992, 11 minutes) Stand By Me (July 17th 1992, 11 minutes) The Tea Party (July 17th 1992, 11 minutes) Out of Luck (July 24th 1992, 11 minutes) The Masquerade (July 25th 1992, 11 minutes) The Play's the Thing (July 31st 1992, 11 minutes) Shop Talk (July 31st 1992, 11 minutes) Th
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Escape from Catrina (Re-edited)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Escape from Catrina (G1 Re-edited TV Episodes, 1987, 2x 10 minutes)   Like Rescue from Midnight Castle, two minutes were edited out of this by removing one song. In this case, however, the one song has one of the biggest worldbuilding bits of weirdness in it, as it's when the two villains dress up in 1880's costumes and do a musical number right out of Mary Poppins with a penny-farthing bicycle and everything.   Like the previous re-edited special, there's not much
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The Prince and the Ponies

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Prince and the Ponies (G1 TV Episode, 1987, 10 minutes)   Invitation to some kind of castle. The Palace Debrandfore? The name is too complicated to be an accident, so it has to be a joke or reference. But I'm not catching what it's a reference to.   Human.   Again we're back to the second French Empire architecture and clothing.   Actually not human, elves again.   Duchess, somehow took the throne from the real rulers.   The Duchess was the cook? Okay.
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Somnambula

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Somnambula (G1 TV Episode, 1987, 2x 10 minutes) Part 1   Big Brother Ponies are coming home! They've been away for a year travelling all around the world? Okay, so everything prior in this series occurred all within one year, but we're finally getting stallions. Think about that; sixty episodes have past, we've got five more to go before the end of the series,and these are the first male ponies we've seen. This is *way* worse than FiM's in-show demographics.   Cal
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The Ice Cream Wars

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Ice Cream Wars (G1 TV Episode, 1987, 10 minutes)   The heck? Even younger ponies than the nominally Baby Ponies. Plus twins. As a note, twins are *extremely* rare with horses.   Something odd with these Baby Ponies. Checking wiki. Gotcha, they're 'First Tooth Baby Ponies', replacing the old just 'Baby Ponies'. People complain about Hasbro now, they really need to check out these older series to know what interference looks like.   Newborn Ponies. Like actual
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Flight to Cloud Castle

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Flight to Cloud Castle (G1 TV Episodes, 1987, 2x 10 minutes) Part 1   Twilight, referring to a pegasis pony this time. They're doing some kind of water-skiing on their own.   An elf. Standard Norman English fantasy gear.   Sleeping maiden Aerial in a cloud castle set there by her wizard father.   This pony is a sucker for love stories. Heartthrob. She was the one in the strawberry shortcake get-up in a previous episode. Didn't even realize she was a pegasis at
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The Golden Horseshoes

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Golden Horseshoes (G1 TV Episodes, 1987, 2x 10 minutes) Part 1   Twinkle-Eyed Unicorn by the name of Mimic is fading in and out. Is this some kind of Winking disorder?   Ponies have never run into this before.   When was the last time going to Moochick actually *helped?*   Wolves.   Habbit changes colour from white to brown from episode to episode. That might actually be natural, as I believe some rabbit breeds actually do that. I'm not that familiar wit
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Spike's Search

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Spike's Search (G1 TV Episode, 1987, 10 minutes)   This is actually an interesting episode just from a franchise point-of-view, as it parallels the 'Dragon Quest' episode from Friendship is Magic.   Spike's growing up, supposedly. He's losing control of his fire.   He's going to go learn from 'real dragons', but unlike the G4 episode he's bringing the human boy Danny.   Talking eagle fledgeling, named Weston.   Animation makes it look like the flame is actual
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The Quest of the Princess Ponies

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Quest of the Princess Ponies (G1 TV Episodes, 1987, 4x 10 minutes)   Here we are at the second season of the first My Little Pony cartoon. It looks like we're starting of with an adventure-type four-parter.   Part 1   Ponies in conical hats, using magic wands. Those hats are often called 'hennin' now, but they had a variety of different names back in the wide range of period where they were popular. 15th Century-19th century all the way from Western Europe wh
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Rescue From Midnight Castle (Re-edited)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Rescue From Midnight Castle (G1 Re-edited TV Episodes, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   Here's the first TV special, re-edited to be part of the TV series. About two minutes have been edited out of this, mostly by removing one song. You're not missing much as the song isn't that spectacular.   This one is a bit puzzling, as they don't change any of the context to deal with the problem of being the first one made, but being broadcast at the end of the first season. Megan and
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Through the Door

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Through the Door (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   Part 1   Ponies are actually exploring, this is somewhere they've never been before.   The Door seems very elaborate. Very reminiscent of Angkor Wat, the Buddhist Monastery in Cambodia. It shows up as a backdrop in a lot of movies going for a mystic Eastern feel.   The Golden Door. Ooooh, actual history of ponyland. Sorcerer built a door to the Land of Legends.   wat. No, not Angkor Wat. Just wat.   T
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The Revolt of Paradise Estate

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Revolt of Paradise Estate (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   Part 1   Why's the ceiling falling down?   The whole building is falling apart. The level of maintenance is horrible. They need an Applejack.   Magic paint.   Ha! Gift pony in the mouth. I can't beleive they did that.   So who was this merchant dude anyway?   But Paradise Estates itself was magic to begin with, wasn't it?   Hey, they have a TV. It seems we're officially switching over
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Crunch the Rockdog

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Crunch the Rockdog (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   Part 1   Desert area. Narration? Ah, okay, reading to the kiddies.   I'm so tired of bushwoolies.   Da what?   That's...   Okay, this 'rockdog' can animate rocks, and transform anything into stone.   Rockdogs are apparantly from the Purple Mountain.   Southern bell pony is definately a proto-Rarity. Can't go anywhere without a big hat.   Yeah, like the Moochick ever has useful information.  
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Baby, It's Cold Outside

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Baby, It's Cold Outside (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   Just as a note, that song you may have heard on the radio called 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'? It's a cover. The original song is from 1944, believe it or not, and has been covered by a *lot* of different artists over the years. So the title of this episode is in fact a pop-culture reference. Just for giggles, I looked it up and Sigourney Weaver and Buster Poindexter covered this song on Saturday Night Live
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Would Be Dragonslayer

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Would Be Dragonslayer (G1 TV Episode, 1986, 10 minutes)   Earth Pony Jumping Finals. We seem to be back to the Pony Olympics again.   Hey, a camel. That's new.   A local human, again medieval culture & clothing, just like Scorpan from the first TV Special.   Standard fantasy castle, based on an exaguration of Alpine castles. Surrounded by briar bushes.   Wizard, fairly godmother, retired adventurer marrying a princess. Okay, so this is the *end* of a fair
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Fugitive Flowers (Parts 1 and 2)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Fugitive Flowers (G1 TV Episode, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   Part 1   Crabs, cutting down trees for some reason.   The crabs has a pseudo-military organization, calls the leader 'Captain'.   Sentient, mobile plants. That are vagely creepy. Flories.   Hey Fluttershy-prototype, Posey.   Prize roses. So they have contests?   Crabnasties. 'The Big Lake'   I'm reminded of a Doctor Who monster from *long* ago, called the Macra.   More than a little creepy.   C
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Woe Is Me (Parts 1 to 2)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Woe Is Me (G1 TV Episode, 1986, 2x 10 minutes)   I'm already starting to regret this idea of mine, and I haven't even gotten through the first season of the nominally 'good' generation's series. I'm just not finding a lot of worldbuilding ideas in the later episodes. Yes, they're introducing what might look like new stuff each time, but it can all get categorized into the same dozen slots. Humans are rare, but present, there's a variety of gnome/goblin-types, an asso
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Mish Mash Melee

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Mish Mash Melee (G1 TV episode, 1986, 10 minutes)   Polo? That's not polo, they're playing Pato. Pato is played without mallets. Mind you, Pato is also quite violent, being more like an extreme form of rugby on horseback.   Mistificent Forest. That's a mouthful. May be inhabited. Like everywhere else in Ponyland, it's close enough to Paradise Estates to stumble into, yet only one pony ever seems to know about their existence.   Gnome-like Delldwellers, who crack
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The Magic Coins (Parts 1 to 4)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Magic Coins (G1 TV episodes, 1986, 4x 10 minutes)   Part 1   I still don't understand why the seaponies have life perservers. Are they also bad swimmers, like all the other ponies?   Okay, just ignore the magic treasure. Playing ball is so much more important. As normal with utopian socieites, they don't use 'crass money'.   Single shot wishes from each coin.   Uhm... you could also just herd the bubble all the way to the ground. It's not like you don't h
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Little Piece of Magic

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Little Piece of Magic (G1 TV episode, 1986, 10 minutes)   There's a huge focus on the baby ponies this entire series. Previously I thought the targeted age demographic dropped series to series, but I'm starting to wonder if it all happened in *this* series.   Partial winking. That's just weird.   Okay, that explains the whole 'what age are they' bit. We're dealing with *clones*. There's an adult Ribbons, and a baby Ribbons simultaneously. No wonder there are no m
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The Return of Tambelon (Parts 1 to 4)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: The Return of Tambelon (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 4x 10 minutes)   This is the one I've been waiting for. I remember this one from when I was a kid. The next time I saw MLP, it was the next series which was a bit of a mental whiplash, and turned me off of MLP. This one is a lot more like the first TV special.   Part 1   Winking out referenced again.   We've got Megan's siblings again. Also dressed the same way they always are.   Derilect city, mix of architectu
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Sweet Stuff and the Treasure Hunt

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Sweet Stuff and the Treasure Hunt (G1 TV Episode, 1986, 10 minutes)   Another short one episode story. The pattern seems to be that they do an adventure-type for the four-parter, then a single slice-of-life episode.   This episode also marks the half-way point of the first Season of this series. That's a lot of episodes, even though they're only 10 minutes long.     Starting off with the bushwoolies this time.   More talking animals. Squirrel this time.  
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Bright Lights (Parts 1 to 4)

My Little Pony 'n Friends: Bright Lights (G1 TV Episodes, 1986, 4x 10 minutes)   Part 1   Back to the clamshell stage we've seen before. No piano this time.   Knight Shade honestly looks like Prince in a way, with the jacket, the cravat, the poufy purple hair. It wouldn't surprise me if that was deliberate.   The band look more like KISS, and definitely have the strung-out look that rock bands had at the time.   Huh. Is this the first officially male pony we've seen?   That's a big c
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